Half an hour later, the senior brother explained in detail the training methods of the two Taoist arts, and confirmed that Shu Guan understood everything if there were any questions.
Then he clapped his hands and jumped off the table.
"Okay, it's almost time, I have to leave."
"The tacit understanding between me and that guy is not to disturb each other for two hours. If it exceeds two hours, he will come after me again."
After Shu Guan listened, his heart suddenly moved.
"Big brother!"
He raised his voice and called out to the senior brother who seemed to be about to take a step forward.
The eldest brother stopped and looked at Shu Guan with questioning eyes.
"A few months ago, I discovered a burial place of an ancient witch god, and found two secret techniques inside..."
Shu Guan hurriedly told his senior brother about his experience in the Huan Temple.
"... Among them, the secret technique of gathering breath, I found that in addition to completely hiding my own cultivation, it can also obscure the secrets of heaven, making it impossible for people to predict anything about me. I wonder if this secret technique has any effect on senior brother. Useful, can you help senior brother avoid the people chasing you?"
The senior brother smiled and shook his head and said:
"No need, my master had already helped me conceal the secrets of heaven. Otherwise, how could I have been hiding in the Good Self Concept for more than four thousand years? They all thought I was dead."
"If I wanted to hide, I could hide from them forever, but it's a pity that I can't."
An extremely complicated smile appeared on the senior brother's face.
At this moment, the senior brother looked... well, he looked very heroic.
"And if it wasn't for my actions that they couldn't figure out, how could I come to see you."
The elder brother continued:
"As for the fact that I can't get rid of the person chasing me, it's because my soul has been locked by him. Although he doesn't know what I'm doing, he must be able to find me quickly."
"In addition, any secret technique of condensing breath and changing shape is useless in front of him, because that guy has three eyes."
"That person's third eye can see through all illusions in the world and see the truth directly. No matter how hard you hide it, he can see through it at a glance."
...It sounds very powerful...but how can a person who can chase his senior brother to the sky and into the earth and be unable to escape, not be powerful?
Shu Guan's chest was filled with ups and downs.
Compared to the world of Senior Brother and the others, the spiritual world in Shencheng is like a group of children playing house.
At this time, the senior brother seemed a little annoyed and said something in Jingcheng dialect.
"It's hard to beat him. Actually, I can't beat that guy. In the past, everyone was just half-matched."
"The main reason is that I haven't found my own stick yet!"
Senior Brother seems to have said this once last time.
"What stick?"
Shu Guan couldn't help but asked curiously.
"A golden stick is my weapon, and it is also a trustworthy treasure given to me by my master. Once it is in my hands, I can weigh it as much or as little as I want, and the size can change as I wish."
"No, I still have to find my stick."
After saying these words, the senior brother bent his knees slightly, then jumped up high, passed directly through the roof, and disappeared.
But he didn't even say goodbye to Shu Guan.
Shu Guan could only wave his hand in the air, wishing the senior brother to find his stick soon.
Originally, he actually had many things he wanted to ask his senior brother.
It's a pity that senior brother always comes and goes in such a hurry.
…
The senior brother left. Shu Guan raised his hand and looked at the time. It was already twelve o'clock in the night, but he did not go to the second floor to rest.
Now he was so excited that he couldn't even sleep.
The harvest tonight was really beyond imagination.
He had already obtained the fragment of the Book of Palms, and his senior brother taught him two more wonderful Taoist techniques, and he also ate a delicious peach.
Shu Guan couldn't wait to practice these Taoist techniques.
He sat in front of the long table, first opened the fragment of the One Palm Sutra, and read it carefully.
Within a few minutes, Shu Guan's face showed an expression of extreme surprise.
Because this fragment of the Yi Zhang Sutra is actually connected with the fragment of the volume preserved in Shan Si Guan.
In other words, what is recorded in this fragment is the same Taoist technique as the Yi Zhang Jing he originally practiced.
It turns out that one of his palm scriptures can only cut off his own affairs, but what is recorded in this fragment can be used to cut off other people's affairs.
Today is really my lucky day!
Shu Guan sighed again in his heart.
Then he started to read page by page. This fragment of the One Palm Sutra still lacked the general outline.
But it had no impact on his practice.
Half an hour later, Shu Guan had read all eight pages of the One Palm Sutra, and then he closed his eyes.
After more than half an hour passed, Shu Guan opened his eyes, his eyes shining brightly.
He has already learned the method of judging others' affairs recorded in the fragments of this Yi Zhang Sutra.
Of course, this still needs to be verified.
Shu Guan thought for a moment, then took out the test tube containing the lavender potion.
When I used the Gui Qian divination technique on this bottle of potion, I saw the figure of another person besides Zhang Hushan.
Unfortunately, because the level of Guiqian's divination technique was too low, the scene he saw at that time was extremely blurry. That's why Shu Guan wanted to buy a higher-level divination technique from the esoteric sect, but in the end he discovered that there was no can not afford.
Thinking about it now, I feel lucky that I couldn't afford it in the first place, otherwise it would have been wasted money.
Shu Guan placed the bottle of lavender potion in the palm of his left hand and stared at it.
At this moment, in Shu Guan's eyes, the densely intertwined palm prints on his palms seemed to be alive and moving.
Like mountains standing tall, like rivers rushing.
Then, a picture slowly formed between those moving palm lines.
It was a room full of the laboratory style of the Western Continent. It was filled with iron racks. The iron racks were filled with various large and small bottles and test tubes. The walls were lit with ancient wall lamps, and the wall lamps were swaying. A pale red flame that flickers on and off.
In those transparent bottles and jars, there were many animal internal organs and corpses, or strange flowers and plants. You could even see a flower full of teeth opening and closing in the yellow liquid.
There are also a lot of metal powders shining in various colors piled in the room.
A man in a black robe stood in front of an extra-long iron table. There was a small boiler in front of him. There was a small pot on the boiler. There seemed to be liquid in the pot that was boiling, making a gurgling sound. There were clouds of purple smoke.
The smoke obscured the man's face, and all he could see was a pale, dry palm stretching out from the purple smoke, shaking the test tube filled with lavender liquid in his hand.
On his middle finger, he wore a strange-looking silver ring.
Last time, Shu Guan didn't see the silver ring clearly, but this time he finally saw it clearly.
It was a ring with two crossed white bones engraved on the surface, and a raised skull in the middle of the white bones.
It's a pity that this time I still couldn't see the man's face clearly.
But it was not because of the divination technique, but because the purple smoke blocked the view.
There is no way around this, and divination is not omnipotent. It can only predict the scene at the moment when this bottle of alchemical medicine is refined.
After all, the person most closely related to this bottle of medicine has become the dead Zhang Hushan.
The image quickly disappeared.
Shu Guan put down the test tube in his hand with some regret.
This time the scene he could see was much clearer than the last time, but unfortunately it still didn't seem to be of substantial help in finding out the origin of this bottle of alchemical medicine.
Shu Guan put this matter aside for the time being.
There's a lot to do tonight.
Then Shu Guan closed his eyes again and began to silently recite the art of shape-changing that his senior brother had just taught him.
Practicing a Taoist skill was always easy for him.
Soon after, Shu Guan opened his eyes, then stood up and came to a mirror in the room.
He stared at his own face in the mirror.
Compared with when he first came out of Taoyuan Valley a few years ago, his appearance has not changed much.
His facial features are still ordinary, his skin is suddenly fair and tender, and he maintains a full youthful look.
Even if he has a beard now, it doesn't make people look older, but deep in his eyes, you can already see some vicissitudes of life.
Shu Guan mobilized his spiritual power, and according to the luck method of the art of shape-changing, it rushed towards the skin and bones of his face.
The next moment, his nose became just a little bit straighter.
This is a very subtle change.
Of course, if you stare carefully at your own reflection in the mirror at this moment, you can still clearly see this subtle change.
However, after Shu Guan turned his head and looked at himself in the mirror again, he could not notice any change in his appearance.
The elder brother is right, if you change a little bit every day, it will be difficult for people who come in contact with you frequently to notice that your appearance is slowly changing.
Shu Guan smiled at himself in the mirror.
Then he began to practice the three-headed and six-armed technique that he was most looking forward to.
An hour later, Shu Guan stood in front of the mirror again and started the three-headed and six-armed technique.
There was a numb and itchy feeling in the neck on both shoulders, as well as under the ribs on both sides.
Then two heads slowly emerged from the sides of the neck, and four arms stretched out from under the ribs.
Whether it's the head that pops out or the arms that stretch out, they all feel like they are connected with flesh and blood.
Shu Guan raised his eyes and looked at himself in the mirror. Six pairs of eyes were facing each other, and twelve arms were slowly raised at the same time.
...It's so weird...
This was the first feeling that came over Shu Kan after he saw the three heads and six arms being used.
But this feeling was quickly forgotten by him.
No matter how ugly and weird you are, can you be uglier than when you were pockmarked?
How many years had he spent looking at himself so ugly? Shu Guan would no longer be surprised no matter what he looked like.
Just make yourself stronger.
Shu Guan's three heads recited the Taoist formula at the same time.
The next moment, a box of matches placed on the table suddenly floated into the air and burned. A column of water rose from the teacup, and a large pit suddenly appeared on the ground beneath his feet.
Fire control, water control, and earth control.
The three heads form a system of their own, performing three Taoist techniques at the same time without interfering with each other.
Shu Guan shook his body with satisfaction, put away his magical powers, and returned to his normal appearance.
During the next period of time, I have to think carefully about how to combine the Taoist skills I know to exert the strongest power of this three-headed and six-armed magical power.
Then Shu Guan went up to the second floor, sat down cross-legged on his bed, and began to practice his luck, relying on the spiritual energy increased by the flat peach to temper his meridians and acupoints.
Within two months, he will cultivate to the peak of the First Consciousness Realm.
And the pinnacle of his first acquaintance will be the twelfth floor!
…
The next day, Shu Guan sat in the Zouma Pavilion all day and received ten guests.
In his free time, he sat there and practiced the art of drawing talismans.
Qian Jing'an came to sit there for a while, but was soon called home by his wife to help make wontons.
Shu Guan specifically asked this famous historian in Dahua what difference he saw today.
Qian Jing'an stared at him with strange eyes for a while, then shook his head decisively.
Shu Guan is very satisfied with this.
As for the talisman-drawing technique that he bought from the secret cult, it was the most basic introductory cultivation technique of talismanism. Naturally, Shu Guan learned it after reading it once.
It's just that practicing the art of drawing talismans and being able to draw a perfect talisman are two different things.
Moreover, different Taoist talismans have special ways to draw the talisman.
Fortunately, the book on the art of drawing talismans also included more than a dozen methods for drawing entry-level talismans. Otherwise, even if Shu Guan had mastered the art of drawing talismans, he would not be able to draw any talismans.
These dozen or so introductory Taoist talismans are nothing more than basic Taoist talismans such as ghost-repelling talismans, good-luck talismans, and home-settling talismans, but they do contain methods for drawing calming talismans.
It's a pity that the most commonly used Taoist talismans in Shuguan, such as the invisibility talisman, the forgetful talisman, and the thousand-mile divine walking talisman, are considered higher-level Taoist talismans, but they are not included in this Taoist book.
On this day, in addition to telling people's fortunes and fortune telling, Shu Guan had been drawing talisman, and he only drew one talisman.
What he drew was a soothing charm.
The Tao of Talisman, among the three thousand roads that the Taoist sect once called, is actually a very high-level path. Although it is not the highest-level path such as the Yin-Yang Avenue, it is not as good as the Tao of the Five Elements and the next-level paths such as the Sword Dao. Path, but it definitely belongs to the third level of path.
In the past, Shu Guan often heard the fifth senior brother An Zichun talking about something:
"What is a talisman? A talisman is a trace. It is a trace of various ways of heaven and earth left on all things."
"The texture of trees is a talisman, the ripples of the lake are talismans, the traces of sand left by crabs crawling across the beach are talismans, the dry cracks in the earth are talismans, and the meridians in our bodies are also talismans."
"It's just that these talismans are dead, but the Tao of heaven and earth is contained in those traces, lines and lines."
"The purpose of cultivating Talisman Tao is how to stimulate the power of Tao contained in those lines, textures, and traces."
"The way to stimulate the power of those talismans is to correctly redraw those lines and traces with a talisman pen. There is no room for error, otherwise the drawn talisman will be a useless talisman."
"If a Fu Dao monk truly cultivates to a high level, his combat ability is no weaker than that of a practitioner who takes a path such as Sword Dao."
"Because Fu Dao monks can use talismans to elicit the power of various other paths. We can activate the power of the five elements, the power of wind and thunder, the power of swords, and almost all the power of heaven and earth."
"Of course, if you only know how to draw the talismans left by your predecessors, you will never be able to understand the true meaning of the talismans. At most, you will be unable to make any progress until you reach the fetal movement state."
"A true master of the Tao of Talisman should observe, learn, and understand from the traces of the Tao of Heaven and Earth in all things in the world, and then create his own talisman. Only in this way can he truly understand the true meaning of the Tao of Talisman."
In short, after listening to the words of the fifth senior brother, you will feel that the art of Talisman is a very advanced and complicated Taoist art.
Of course, the practice of Shu Guan is not that complicated, and the advanced theories and insights of the fifth senior brother are meaningless to him.
When Shu Guan wanted to learn the art of Talisman, he learned it.
What really troubled Shuguan and hindered him was how to use the talisman pen to draw those winding lines on the talisman paper.
The talisman pen is, of course, a writing brush.
For Shu Guan, who had hardly used a brush in his previous life, this was indeed a very torturous thing.
Even though what he is drawing now is just the simplest calming talisman, this talisman actually has only a dozen lines.
However, it is really a great test for Shu Guan to draw these dozens of winding and winding lines, including the length, bending degree, and intersection angle, accurately with his own hands.
He spent a whole day drawing and wasted more than a dozen talisman papers, but none of them succeeded.
And in the evening, after closing the door of the Zouma Pavilion, Shu Guan continued to burn the midnight oil to fight. No matter what, he had to draw this calming talisman today.
Shu Guan didn't even bother to eat dinner, so he concentrated on painting, resisting the urge to break the talisman pen several times, and continued to waste a dozen talisman papers worth 500 silver dollars each, but he still couldn't successfully draw. Create the simplest soothing charm.
To draw a talisman, you must concentrate on activating the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, causing it to condense on the tip of the talisman pen, combining the spiritual power with the special cinnabar, and leaving it on the talisman paper.
This is a very nerve-wracking thing.
For example, the fifth senior brother could only draw a dozen Taoist symbols a day.
It was my first time to try this kind of Shuguan. After painting it in one day, I was already dizzy.
It seems I can only try again tomorrow.
Shu looked at the time, it was already nine o'clock in the evening, and he had another thing to do tonight.
It seems that I can only continue practicing tomorrow.
This is the first time Shu Guan has been unable to easily master a certain Taoist technique since he started practicing.
It seems that paths that require special skills, such as Talisman Dao, Weapon Dao, and Alchemy Dao, are really not suitable for me.
However, at this moment, Xiao Yi's weak voice sounded in his mind.
"Brother, do you want me to try it?"
"How do you try?"
Shu Guan was slightly startled and asked in his mind.
"As long as you give me control of your body, brother."
"Okay, then you come and try."
Shu Guan picked up the talisman pen again, took out a new talisman paper, and then looked at his hand holding the pen and drawing talisman lines on the talisman paper.
Yes, Shu Guan just "watched".
Although his hand was moving, it seemed that it had nothing to do with him at this moment.
It's really an amazing experience.
Perhaps Xiaoyi, who lives in his own soul, usually feels like this.
Shu watched as talisman lines appeared on the talisman paper, which were exactly the same as the examples of the calming talisman in the Taoist book.
When the last line emerged after drawing, and the moment he stopped holding the talisman pen in his hand, the spiritual power contained in the talisman lines began to flow, connecting together like unblocked rivers.
At this moment, the entire talisman paper began to exude a faint aura.
The talisman is completed!
(End of chapter)
